UNESCO free digital course

UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning is offering a free, self-paced online course to help literacy educators build digital teaching skills. (uil.unesco.org) The course, called *Improving the Digital Competencies of Literacy Educators*, launched on February 18, 2026 in Arabic, French and Spanish, and UNESCO says it is designed for youth and adult literacy educators. (uil.unesco.org) UNESCO says the course has 11 sessions and covers using digital tools in literacy instruction, creating learning materials, and exploring educational technology, including artificial intelligence. (uil.unesco.org) The offer fits into a wider UNESCO push to train educators for online, remote and blended learning. UNESCO’s Global Teacher Campus says its free courses are meant to improve digital and pedagogical skills across different teaching environments. (unesco.org) UNESCO has been building that effort in the Caribbean for several years. In a 2021 regional program, UNESCO said nearly 7 million students in 23 countries and 91,000 teachers were affected by school closures, and the project set a goal of training 10,000 teachers in online education tools and blended learning. (unesco.org) That Caribbean project also showed the gap UNESCO is trying to close: even where internet access and devices were available, many teachers still lacked the training to design and run quality distance learning. (unesco.org) UNESCO’s adult-learning arm has expanded that work beyond emergency remote teaching. In October 2024, the Institute for Lifelong Learning and Shanghai Open University launched a separate project to build a digital competency framework for adult educators, with sample training modules due by the end of 2025. (uil.unesco.org) The new course is one practical piece of that longer campaign: a no-fee training option that UNESCO says educators can take at their own pace, in four languages, as schools and adult-learning programs keep shifting toward digital instruction. (uil.unesco.org)